Anyway last Friday, my boyfriend took me to Aria for his birthday. Yes, you heard right.
Tasting menu this time is a lot better- so this will just be quick review/overview of that particular experience:
7 course seasonal tasting menu $160 per person:
1. Salmon - cured New Zealand salmon with kombu and Earl Grey tea, yuzu tapioca and avocado purée
2. Ballotine - of smoked ham, foie gras, mushroom and chicken with a mustard salad and a pickled cucumber, caper and tarragon dressing
3. Scallops - spiced and roasted with a salad of heirloom carrots, young coconut and a coriander and yoghurt dressing
4. Peking Duck Consomme - with dumplings, shaved abalone and mushrooms
5. Pork Belly - Kurobuta sweet pork belly with pickled watermelon and crackling
6. Lamb - roasted lamb fillet with confit belly, eggplant purée, tomato and basil fondue and a black olive sauce
7. Pavlova - with black cherries, tonka bean cream and a pistachio sorbet
Overall:
Food- 6.5/10
Ambience- 6/10
Service- 7/10
Conclusion, it's okay to dine here once every couple years, only when there's a new tasting menu. It's an affordable place with a semi romance-esque feel to it (anywhere with dim lighting and a view can give you this feeling).
x -C
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